Textbook
Honour, Hugh. Romanticism . Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780064300896.
It is also suggested that you read or at least skim the appropriate entries for the given composers in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Course readings.
| LEC # |
TOPICS/COMPOSERS |
READINGS |
| 1 |
An Introduction to the Romantic Genres |
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| Part 1: Intimacy and the (Self-) Portrait: Piano Music and Songs |
| 2 |
Songs and Piano Music of Schubert and Mendelssohn |
Honour. Introduction, Chapter 1. |
| 3 |
Songs and Piano Music of Schumann |
Honour. Chapter 7. |
| 4 |
Piano Music of Chopin and Liszt |
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| 5 |
Brahms, Wolf and Strauss |
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| 6 |
Faure and Debussy |
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| Part 2: Romantic Chamber Music |
| 7 |
Schubert String Quintet |
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| 8 |
Brahms |
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| 9 |
Chamber Music in France: Saint-Saens, Franck, Faure and Debussy |
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| 10 |
Quiz 1 |
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| Part 3: Drama in the Theater and the Church: Opera and Church Music |
| 11 |
Weber and Wagner |
Honour. Chapter 8. |
| 12 |
Donizetti and Verdi |
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| 13 |
Verdi (cont.) and Gounod |
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| 14 |
Tchaikowsky |
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| Intermezzo: Nationalism |
| 15 |
Smetana, Grieg, Dvorak, Moussorgsky |
Honour. Chapter 6. |
| Part 4: Orchestral Music: Programatic and Absolute |
| 16 |
Mendelssohn and Schubert |
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| 17 |
Berlioz |
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| 18 |
Schumann and Brahms |
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| 19 |
Tchaikowsky |
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| 20 |
Bruckner and Sibelius |
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| 21 |
Mahler |
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| 22 |
Elgar, Strauss and Debussy |
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| 23 |
Quiz 2 |
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| Part 5: Romanticism in America |
| 24 |
Foster, Gottschalk, Beach, Foote and Chadwick |
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| Finale |
| 25 |
Salon I |
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| 26 |
Salon II |
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